Badiucao (巴丢草): Deal
Badiucao comments on the recent gas deal between Russia and China which is estimated to be worth...
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63 Face Punishment Over Qingdao Pipeline Blast
The Wall Street Journal’s Wayne Ma reports that 43 people have been disciplined following an...
Li Qun: Maintain Stability After Qingdao Explosion
Residents of Huangdao, the district of Qingdao where an oil pipeline explosion last Friday has...
Qingdao Residents Protest After Pipeline Explosion
Residents of Qingdao’s Huangdao District, site of the Sinopec oil pipeline explosion last...
Drawing the News: Pipeline Explosion and More
A roundup of online political cartoons from the past week. Click any image to launch slideshow. An...
Nine Detained as Qingdao Pipeline Death Toll Rises
In the wake of the Sinopec oil pipeline that exploded on the outskirts of Qingdao last Friday, the...
Minitrue: Qingdao Oil Pipeline Explosion
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Dozens Killed in Qingdao Pipeline Rupture (Updated)
[See updates below] An explosion outside a petrochemical plant on the outskirts of Qingdao has...
China Set to Become Largest Net Oil Importer
The U.S. Energy Information Administration predicts that China is likely to become the world’s largest net oil importer as soon as October: The imminent emergence of China as the world’s largest net oil importer has...
Kunming PX Environmental Assessment Under Fire
Environmental groups have attacked the impact assessment report for a planned PX plant near Kunming, published late last month following major protests against the project. The report deemed risks from the plant...
China Takes Over Strategic Port in Pakistan
Chinese Overseas Port Holdings Limited took over management of the Pakistani port of Gwadar on Monday, amid suspicion of China’s growing presence in the Indian Ocean. From Reuters: China financed more than 80 percent of...
Obama Visit Shows U.S.-China Rivalry Over Myanmar
Little more than a year ago, there was talk of Myanmar (also known as Burma) as a “Chinese California”, offering China a west coast onto the Indian Ocean. Now, Coke and Pepsi billboards glare at each other across...
Chinese Bank Pulls out of Pakistan-Iran Pipeline
Following pressure from the U.S. and its allies, China is pulling back from its support for Iran. The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China has backed out of investing in a pipeline that would run from Iran through Pakistan,...
Beijing Urges Myanmar to Restart Dam Construction
After the suspension of a controversial dam project in late September of 2011, Beijing is now urging Myanmar’s government to restart the $3.6 billion Myitsone dam project, which was being built by a Chinese company. The...
Pivoting Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire?
Obama’s foreign policy “pivot” has been described by The Australian’s Asia-Pacific editor, Rowan Callick, as the embrace of “a new positive narrative — engagement with economically vibrant and...
Burma "Could Become China's California"
Thant Myint-U writes on Burma’s place at a “new crossroads of Asia” between China and India. Tantalisingly for Beijing, it also separates China from the Indian Ocean, to which new roads, railways and pipelines...
Turkmenistan to Boost Gas Deliveries to China
China is preparing to sign a deal with Turkmenistan that will increase China’s imports of gas by about a third. From the AP: The deal means Turkmenistan’s annual gas sales to China will eventually reach 60 billion...
China Grapples with Dalian Blasts
The Wall Street Journal has an update on the oil pipeline explosion in Dalian: China National Petroleum Corp. said it would do all it could to limit the impact of a series of oil-pipeline explosions near the shipping and tourism...
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